Gothic Breastplate
1480–1490
- Medium
- steel
- Dimensions
- Overall: 50.5 x 35.8 x 15.8 cm (19 7/8 x 14 1/8 x 6 1/4 in.)
- Genre
- Arms and armor
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art
About
Individual armor elements, like this breastplate, were shaped in ways that would make their surfaces as deflecting as possible. The contours of this breastplate, along with the pronounced vertical ridge down its center, were for precisely this purpose.